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Pauline Whitby (1926 [1] - 23 November 2015) was a British science fiction author who wrote under the pseudonym Pauline Ashwell. She also wrote under the name Paul Ash. She took her pen names from Ashwell, Hertfordshire, near her birthplace of Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

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Ashwell's first published work was a children's fantasy book, Little Red Steamer (Methuen, 1941) and her first science fiction story, "Invasion from Venus", published when she was only 16 years old. It appeared in the July 1942 issue of an obscure British science fiction magazine, Yankee Science Fiction, under the name Paul Ashwell. [2] : 370 

She was discovered by science fiction editor John W. Campbell, who published her debut novel, Unwillingly to School, under the name Pauline Ashwell in the January 1958 issue of Astounding Science Fiction . [2] : 146  She was nominated for the Hugo Awards for Best New Author and Best Novelette. [3] Campbell also published her story Big Sword in the October 1958 of Astounding under the name Paul Ash. [2] : 325  Her third story for Campbell was The Lost Kafoozalum, again under the name Pauline Ashwell, published in the October 1960 issue of Analog Science Fact & Fiction (the new name of Astounding). This story was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story. [4] Though she lost to Poul Anderson's The Longest Voyage , Richard A. Lupoff included her story in his series What If? Stories That Should Have Won The Hugo as one of three stories by women who debuted in the 1950s that he thought should have won those awards. [2] : 250–1 

Her 1966 story, The Wings of a Bat under the name Paul Ash, appeared as a nominee on the first ballot of the Nebula Award for Best Novelette. [5] Other than Rats in the Moon in the November 1982 issue of Analog, she published nothing between 1966 and 1988. [2] : 370  In 1988, she published a burst of stories in Analog: Interference (as Paul Ash, March), Thingummy Hall (June), Fatal Statistics (July), Make Your Own Universe (Mid-December), and Shortage in Time (December). [2] : 370  More stories followed during the next two decades. Her story Man Opening a Door, published in the June 1991 issue of Analog under the name Paul Ash, was on the final ballot as a nominee for the Nebula Award for Best Novella. [2] : 370  Her novel The Man Who Stayed Behind appeared in the July 1993 issue of Analog, also under the name Paul Ash, but was never published in book form. [2] : 370 

Tor Books published her only two books:

Ashwell also published love stories under a variety of pseudonyms. [6]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Davin, Eric Leif (2006). Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction 1926–1965 . Lexington Books. ISBN   0-7391-1266-X.
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  4. ↑ "1961 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. World Science Fiction Society. 26 July 2007. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
  5. ↑ "Bibliography: The Wings of a Bat". The Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  6. ↑ Michael Ashley (2000). The History of the science fiction magazine. Liverpool University Press. p. 134. ISBN   978-0-85323-855-3 . Retrieved 29 July 2011.
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